President Umaru Yar� Adua said on Monday that Nigeria required to increase funding for oil and gas sector from the current $4.5bn to about $10bn annually in order to achieve optimum development in the sector. Speaking at the first Nigerian … read more
NO fewer than ten officers of the Nigerian Merchant Navy including their Commandant, Commodore Benson Edema were weekend arrested by people suspected to be naval men and taken to an undisclosed location in Apapa, Lagos after a minor disagreement with … read more
Nigerian troops clashed early on Sunday with armed militants in the Niger Delta oil region near a natural gas facility run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, a military official said. The latest encounter between troops and militants in rising violence … read more
Four patrol boats belonging to the Nigerian Navy in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were on Sunday attacked by militants. A source told our correspondents that the boats were patrolling the creeks in the Soku area of Port Harcourt when the … read more
The House of Representatives has barred the chairmen of its standing committees from travelling abroad until the 2008 budget is passed. The decision was taken to meet the December 20 deadline set to approve the budget. It also hinted that … read more
THE Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Mike Aondoaka (SAN), has written President Umaru Yar�Adua, asking him to stop the ongoing money laundering trial of former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, in a London court. … read more
Multichoice Nigeria has been fined N10 million for violating the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Act by showing “pornographic” scenes to viewers during the recently concluded Big Brother Africa 2 programme. The Chairman, House Committee for Information and National Orientation, Honourable … read more
SENIOR FIGURES at the Commonwealth Games and from the team behind Glasgow’s winning bid have reacted with incredulity to claims from a Nigerian official that the voting to decide the venue for the 2014 games was subject to ballot-rigging and … read more
Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, said yesterday in Ibadan that the Senate was right in repudiating the transfer of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun. Akinjide said it was wrong for former President Olusegun Obasanjo to … read more
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, may have ordered that Omehia�s former aides be investigated in a bid to recover assets that reportedly disappeared from the Government House after Celestine Omehia�s sack on October 25. The probe may be a fall-out … read more